Remnants of former theatre found underneath old toy's R us store

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 7/27/16 at 6:35pm

What else is underneath our feet? http://www.playbill.com/article/times-square-construction-workers-unearth-ruins-of-old-theatre

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/27/16 at 7:37pm

You would be surprised. For the longest time, the old Woolworth's on 50 th street had the remnants of the old Earl Carroll theater concealed above its ceiling.

[pjm-guy]

Posted: 7/27/16 at 10:29pm

That's pretty cool! The Criterion in London is also below street level and opened in 1874.

[broadwayguy91]

Posted: 7/27/16 at 11:09pm

The 1993 she loves me revival played in those ruins before transferring to the brooks atkinson

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 7/27/16 at 11:19pm

Not necessarily. The ruins are more than likely remnants of Criterion's predecessors 

[Sammytravels]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 10:07am

How depressing that it is now going to be a Gap/Old Navy store. We need more of these don't we? Tsk tsk

 

[swanjewel]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 10:26am

I love stuff like this!  

[Smaxie]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 11:05am

It's more likely the remains of Hammerstein's Olympia Theatre that stood on that block and had several theatre spaces within it.

[¿Macavity?]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 12:59pm

Wow, how interesting... I really love discoveries like this.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 1:02pm

What a shame that no longer exists. I bet it looked gorgeous inside at the time.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 1:06pm

Go to cinema treasures.org 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 4:13pm

 

It's the kind of theatre that has been entirely erased from NYC (or at least Manhattan), in the 19th century style.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 4:21pm

Crazy gorgeous. Wow. 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/28/16 at 4:49pm

Manhattan Center used to look something like this.